Writers Hear Plea for Resumption
of Jewish Cultural Life in USSR
Pope Sees Mexican Rabbi THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
and Greets World Jewry
Friday, June 24, 1966—.5
ROME (JTA) — Pope Paul Fribourg U. Honors Dr. Weizmann's Memory
(Continued from Pay 1)
Moscow, the amateur group in Tuesday received in a 50-minute
REHOVOT — A commemorative that ceremony in the Swiss city
Soviet Union to teach and to learn Vilna would become professional, private audience Rabbi Abraham plaque honoring the first president Sept. 12, 1949.
Hershberg,
h
.
f
rabbi
Mexico
ico
Yiddish and Hebrew. We are sure and that a Russo-Yiddish diction-
of Israel, Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
Both Dr. Weizmann and the
and president of the Union of was unveiled Tuesday at the Uni-
that Mr. Miller's own appeal will ary would be published.
then rector were among the speak-
Latin American Rabbis.
not fall on deaf ears, either in this
versity of Fribourg. Switzerland, ers at the assembly, which was
The weekly contained a dispatch
Rabbi Hershberg said that the
assembly or outside of it."
setting forth these developments Pope extended greetings to world from which the late president attended by many distinguished
obtained his doctoral degree in academic personalities.
"As the Yiddish P.E.N. Centel from the Novosti Press Agency in
views it," Glanz-Leyeless stated , Moscow. Last weekend, S. Rabino- Jewry and pledged that the work 1899.
of understanding between religions
Mrs. Weizmann. who was unable
"the struggle for the restoration of witz, Novosti ' s editor in charge of
Truth, though the Heavens crush
Yiddish culture in the Soviet Un- Jewish affairs, said he knew noth-, started by the recent Second Vati- to attend, sent a message of greet-
can Ecumenical Council would be ings to the university for the me for following her. — Carlyle.
ion is just beginning. especially as ing about the decisions to establish continued.
occasion.
t had to do with the writers of all a Yiddish-language school or pub-
At the end of the audience, the
The rector stated that the plaque
:iations and languages. It is a fact lish a dictionary. He said the report
r
...---perhaps a sad fact—that most of on the theaters and the Kiev maga- Pope again assured the rabbi that was made of Israeli marble.
friendly
relations
with
the
.Jewish
The Israel minister of posts,
the writers. of other lands and other zine were premature, but indicated
literatures know very little about • that something was in the offing people "who had suffered such Elias Sasson, a former ambas-
terrible
persecution,"
remained
his
sador to Switzerland, represent-
Yiddish literature, and still less on these points.
ABOUT THAT CHIEF !
particular care.
ed the government of Israel at
about the Yiddish language.
the ceremony.
"If we could bring home to these
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At least 50 of the demonstrators accompanied by his wife, attended
Commenting on the presidium's which is held to be neo-Nazi in were involved in a scuffle which
referral of the Jewish group's pro- its orientation and aspirations, developed when some of them
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Beattie opened his rally in Allan
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freedom of the Jewish minority in it is estimated that about 20 per
cent
of
the
NDP
members
are
As
the
victims
of
Nazism
the Soviet Union." The resolution former
Nazis.
waved anti-Nazi placards, the
urged that, in conformity with the
The trade unions, which have
crowd booed Beattie so vigorous-
Soviet Constitution, Soviet Jewry
The story of one of the most dramatic and controversial events of
be given the opportunity "to parti- 20,000,000 members, are consider- ly that his remarks could not be
heard. The rally lasted a short
our time — the Eichmann trial — told, against the background of
cipate in its own cultural life in ed now the strongest German group
time after which, to protect him,
history, by the prosecuting attorney.
the same way as other minorities fighting neo-Nazism. The principal
demand of the counter-demon-
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